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It's a cool concept and well produced, but it lacked in riding radness. Not to hate on Finn because he's a phenomenal rider, but with the urban edits Fabio Wibmer has been putting out the bar has been raised. Like a lot.

I think you're all being a bunch of typical PB twats. The kid's in Quebec for a couple days to race and puts together a cool video and you're critiquing it? Fabio and Finn. Finn just killed MSA. Fabio does awesome urban videos. What's the f*ckin point?All above. f*ck you. You're what makes PB less than it should be. Grow up

@kubaner: Actually, people expressing honest opinions of the videos they are seeing is NOT "what makes PB less than it should be". Middle-aged men overreacting to said opinions and ranting like drunken teenagers is what makes PB less than it should be : )

Finn is a young kid and quite possibly on of the best cyclists in the world . Finn has no reason to be putting his health at risk to outdo Fabio... Finn can go faster,further and with absolute much more intetensity than Fabio will ever.It's a sick edit and we have no need to be comparing/contrasting when we all know what Finn is all about about the same with Fabio

@MJ4LIFERIDER: Fabio has an extensive street/trials background... Does Finn? This was honestly a pretty boring edit-many amatuers could have attempted the features in the edit, and if a comparitively unknown rider made something like this, Pinkbike would say it sucks. So why have double standards?

@MJ4LIFERIDER: If you have ever watched bmx films you would find this extremely unimpressive, especially with the size of the gaps they hit without using a $10K dh bike - watch Trey Jones, Van Homan, Tom Dugan, Steven Hamilton, Garrett Byrnes, Chad Osborn, Colt Fake - all are good street riders. Your average street BMX rider can easily match or exceed the level of riding in this edit.

For the record, Finn has skills to pay the bills. Stoked to root for him next season in the elites. However, for a red bull produced clip, this was the least exciting urban segment I've seen. Production and concept were top notch. Moat gap at the end was dope.

It was like a bmx or trials edit but instead of mind-blowing tricks, they used shots of sprinting down the street in full moto kit and riding down stairs. Finn's amazing and Quebec is beautiful, but downhill bikes look better on dirt.

@t1000: It's funny when the Bruins usually do not hire local Massachusetts/New England talent but most of the squad consists of Quebec guys. While Montreal's team a lot of years consists of a lot of American players.

Finn is a great rider, but this is a complete rip-off of the Monster videos featuring Ken Block and BJ Baldwin. I've never really cared for Specialized. They are about as uninspiring as the marketing team that made this video.

There's no need to compare the two. They're not trying to be the same. Fabio is an incredible talent. But... Finn's video is extremely well made, he rips, it's less about tricks and more about going fast on creative lines. There's no denying that Fabio's talent, he's insane on a bike. But it's wrong to take away from what Finn has put together here, which is a really solid short video that any one of us would be proud to put our name on. Congrats to both riders for dominating your sport and putting out great content for the rest of us to enjoy and argue over. Cheers!

For riding it's good, food, women, etc. Otherwise it's not the greatest to live. IE, they don't let dogs into their parks (it's a province full of whiny old people ruining it for everyone else), and that in itself is a deal breaker for me. Spent a LOT of time in QC. Love it, but it's got it's limits in terms of life. Eveything is backwards, it's like they say "they do advance green early in Ontario, well we will do the opposite!" (anyone who knows, knows).

@atrokz: About the dog thing, it's not province-wide; each city has different rules. I will agree with you on the old whiny people tho, it's true.

@TheR: It's funny you say that. See I was born and raised in Quebec. I lived in the west for quite some time, loved it. I did realize one thing while I was there: Canada is the only place in the world where it's not cool to speak French. Great majority of people who don't like Quebec are Canadians. Let's face it : the language is still a big issue even tho most people here speak both french and english.

@sickn3ss: I looked it up after getting kicked out of a provincial park (bruno) last Saturday. Apparently only 3 large parks have a pilot project as of this year, and some municipalities have some parks dogs allowed. I was pretty surprised and bummed out about it. I love a lot of Quebec, its culture, the environment etc but there are certainly some pretty weird things about it. And Montreal roads make no sense, even in the newer areas. Haha.

@sickn3ss: I've been to Montreal. I thought it was a beautiful city, and had no problem with the people.

I've also been to Vancouver, Whistler and Victoria. All beautiful places, but regarding that legendary Canadian "niceness" -- I thought a lot of people were rather passive-aggressive, especially in Vancouver and Whistler.

I've also seen the hostility to the French language. I work in media, and I was at an athletic event in Victoria, and a French-speaking reporter from a French-Canadian news outlet asked one of the English-speaking Canadian athletes if he spoke French, and he was just dripping with attitude when he said no. So the resentment is real. I've seen it first hand.

One caveat I need to add to the passive-aggressive attitude I found in Vancouver -- it seems to come primarily from the dudes. Some of the most beautiful women without attitudes I've met seem to come from Canada. If any of those ladies had grown up in LA, Chicago or New York, they'd think they were Oprah.

@BenPea: there are laws here for picking up, it's not a problem in the rest of Canada, it was a ban because they 'thought' it would be a problem, now they are slowly allowing them apparently. It's a non issue, rowdy teens and graffiti are actual issues there, not dogs. Keep in mind you're French, different world here.

@atrokz: You're probably right about that. The French have a very liberal attitude to bodily excretia, whatever beast produces it. There are laws here, but there's also very little policing or f*cks given. I get my kids to play in doggy pooping areas as it's the least likely place to contain dog shit.

Maybe the infrastructure wasn't there, but sometimes you've got to play the cards you're dealt. Personally I think Fabio Wibmer set the new standard for this kind of riding and the rest is still playing catch up, but hey, game on!